Thursday, September 12, 2013

Kerry Consults Kissinger on Getting to Yes With Russians $SPY $LMT


Kerry Consults Kissinger on Getting to Yes With Russians $SPY

Kerry and Lavrov will seek common ground on Syria turning over its chemical weapons to international control to avoid a U.S. military strike intended to punish what the Obama administration says was President Bashar al-Assad’s gassing of 1,400 Syrians on Aug. 21. Russia seized on a passing remark by Kerry earlier this week about a weapons turnover in proposing just that.
Though the meeting with Kissinger was planned before the latest developments in Syria, Kerry was eager to draw on the older man’s experience in communicating effectively with Russian diplomats, the U.S. official said. Kissinger pioneered the policy of détente with the Soviet Union and served as secretary of State and national security adviser to Republican President Richard Nixon. The U.S. official described Kerry as a fan of Kissinger’s 1994 book, “Diplomacy.”
Kerry consulted all the living former secretaries of State before his post early this year and checks back with them regularly, including twice in the last two days with Madeleine Albright, who held the post under Democratic President Bill Clinton, the official said.

Kissinger-Putin Meetings

U.S. officials -- and the companies that pay Kissinger Associates Inc., the consulting firm he founded -- aren’t alone in tapping Kissinger’s thoughts on great-power politics.
Early last year, Kissinger met in Moscow to discuss world affairs with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, whose press secretary described the men as “old friends” and said that they had previously met eight to 10 times, including over dinner at Kissinger’s home in New York.
Putin values everyone’s point of view, “especially such a wise man as Henry Kissinger,” Dmitri S. Peskov told the New York Times in January 2012.
In Putin’s book “First Person,” he recounted a conversation with Kissinger in the early 1990s when Putin, then an aide to the mayor of St. Petersburg, picked up the German-born U.S. diplomat at the airport.

No comments:

Post a Comment